Month: February 2018

One of the greatest and most famous Greek philosophers, Socrates is considered the first moral philosopher and one of the founders of Western philosophy. Since he didn’t write down any of his work and teachings, the philosopher remains an enigmaticRead More

Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. This was actually a pseudonym, as the poet’s real name was Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Neruda used to write poetry ever since he was 10 years old, but his father never agreedRead More

One of the founders of the self-help movement, Louise Hay was an American motivational author. Published in 1976, Heal Your Body is considered one of the best books discussing the mind and body connection. Hay went through some really roughRead More

Jane Austen was an English author, best known for her outstanding novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma. There is little biographical information about Austen’s life. She wrote thousands of letters to her family, but her older sister,Read More

Pita Taufatofua’s qualifying road to PyeongChang 2018 is the stuff of Hollywood movie scripts. The second Tongan ever to attend the Winter Olympics once picked cassava on the weekends and shared a one-bedroom house with sevenRead More

Known as ‘The Angel of Crimea’ or the ‘Lady with the Lamp’, Florence Nightingale was a revolutionary figure in nursing. During the Crimean War, more soldiers were dying from infections than from battle injuries. Nightingale and a team of nursesRead More

The man who is believed to have influenced more people into success than anyone in history, Napoleon Hill, was an outstanding American author who wrote the groundbreaking self-help book Think and Grow Rich. Hill is widely known as the fatherRead More

Eric Thomas is an American motivational speaker, author and pastor, who founded his own company to offer education consulting, executive coaching and athletic development. Thomas grew up without a father, was homeless for two and a half years, and struggled inRead More

Born without limbs, but getting the best out of this life, Nick Vujicic is a powerful motivational speaker that manages to shake his audience to its very core every single time. Having no arms and legs… imagine that for aRead More

British business magnate and entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson is the founder and chairman of Virginia Group and one of the richest people out there. In school, Branson struggled with dyslexia and couldn’t really adapt, so at 16 he decided toRead More